US5437090A - Method of making a rotor of an inductor type alternating current generator - Google Patents

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US5437090A
US5437090A US08/202,013 US20201394A US5437090A US 5437090 A US5437090 A US 5437090A US 20201394 A US20201394 A US 20201394A US 5437090 A US5437090 A US 5437090A
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    • H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
    • H02K1/22—Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/24—Rotor cores with salient poles ; Variable reluctance rotors
    • H02K1/243—Rotor cores with salient poles ; Variable reluctance rotors of the claw-pole type
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    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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    • H02K15/00—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines
    • H02K15/02—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines of stator or rotor bodies
    • H02K15/022—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines of stator or rotor bodies with salient poles or claw-shaped poles
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • This invention relates to an improvement in a method of making a rotor of an inductor type alternating current generator.
  • FIG. 13 is a sectional diagram showing a conventional inductor type alternating current generator shown, for instance, in Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 1577/1992.
  • reference numeral 1 designates a pulley, 2, a shaft connected to the pulley 1, and 3, a rotor fixed to the shaft 2.
  • notation 3a designates first claws composing a first inductor, 3b, second claws composing a second inductor, 3c, a nonmagnetic ring and 3d, a core.
  • Reference numeral 4 designates a front bracket, and 5, a rear bracket, both of which rotatably support the shaft 2 through bearings 6 and 7.
  • Numeral 8 designates an excitation coil fixed to the rear bracket 5 through the core 9, 10, a stator fixed between the front bracket 4 and the rear bracket 5, and 10a, a stator coil.
  • Numeral 11 designates a rectifier fixed to the rear bracket 5 and connected to the stator coil 10a, 12, a regulator fixed to the rear bracket 5 and connected to the excitation coil 8, and 13, a rotating fan fixed to the shaft 2 along with the pulley 1.
  • the pulley 1 is driven to rotate by a prime mover, not shown, through a belt, by which the rotor 3 fixed to the shaft 2 is rotated.
  • the first claws 3a and the second claws 3b of the rotor 3 are inductors excited by the excitation coil 8 in different polarities, which are alternately and opposedly disposed and which are connected and fixed to the nonmagnetic ring 3c.
  • An excited electromotive force is generated in the stator coil 10a when the rotor 3 is rotated and crosses a magnetic field generated by the excitation coil 8.
  • This excited electromotive force generates a three-phase alternating current, which is full-wave-rectified into a direct current by the rectifier 11 and the direct current is supplied to a battery or an electric load.
  • the regulator 12 controls a current flowing in the excitation coil 8 to maintain the electromotive force excited in the stator coil 10a at a constant voltage.
  • the front bracket 4 and the rear bracket 5 compose an outer frame of the generator, which is attached and fixed to the prime mover.
  • the fan 13 rotates along with the pulley 1 and cools the inside of the generator.
  • an electron beam welding device is employed as a means for connecting and fixing the first and second claws 3a and 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c.
  • an electron beam is directly irradiated to contact faces of the first claws 3a or the second claws 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c, from distal ends of the first claws 3a or the second claws 3b along an axial direction, to thereby weld and connect the first claws 3a, the second claws 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c.
  • the electron beam is irradiated from the distal end sides of the first claws 3a or the second claws 3b along the axial direction to thereby perform welding. Accordingly, the direction of irradiation of the electron beam differs among the first claws 3a and the second claws 3b.
  • the direction of opening of the rotor is reversed by 180° and the second claws 3b of the other inductor and the nonmagnetic ring 3c are welded by irradiating again the electron beam from the same direction, whereby the welding operation is complicated and the operational performance is poor.
  • a method of making a rotor of an inductor type alternating current generator formed by connecting opposedly and alternately disposed first claws and second claws of a first inductor and a second inductor excited by an excitation coil in different polarities through a nonmagnetic ring, wherein contact portions of the first and second claws and the nonmagnetic ring are connected by a welding means from inner sides of the first and second claws and in a direction inclined to an axial direction by a predetermined angle in connecting the first and second inductors.
  • the claws and the nonmagnetic ring can be welded from the same direction without reversing the direction of opening of the claws of the inductor in the rotor by 180°.
  • FIG. 1 is a sectional diagram showing a rotor in an embodiment of this invention
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional diagram showing a step of welding a claw 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c by an electron beam in an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional diagram showing a step of welding a claw 3a and a nonmagnetic ring 3c by an electron beam in an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by an angle of inclination of 45° of an electron beam in an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 5 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3a and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by an angle of inclination of 45° of an electron beam in an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 6 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by an angle of inclination of 60° of an electron beam according to the present invention
  • FIG. 7 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3a and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded in an angle of inclination of 60° of an electron beam according to the present invention
  • FIG. 8 is a sectional diagram showing a method of welding according to another embodiment of the present invention, wherein a rotor is fixed and a direction of an electron beam is successively moved;
  • FIG. 9 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by a laser welding method according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3a and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by a laser welding method according to the present invention
  • FIG. 11 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by a TIG welding method according to the present invention
  • FIG. 12 is a sectional diagram showing a state after a claw 3a and a nonmagnetic ring 3c have been welded by a TIG welding method according to the present invention
  • FIG. 13 is a sectional diagram showing a conventional inductor type alternating current generator
  • FIGS. 14(a) and 14(b) are diagrams showing a conventional device wherein FIG. 14(a) is a plane view showing claws 3a and 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c, and FIG. 14(b), a sectional diagram showing the claws 3a and 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c; and
  • FIG. 15 is a sectional diagram showing a step of welding claws 3a and 3b and a nonmagnetic ring 3c by a conventional electron beam welding method.
  • reference numeral 20 designates a portion for welding the claw 3a and the nonmagnetic ring 3c of one inductor, 21, a portion for welding the claw 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c of the other inductor, 22, contact portions of the claw 3a of the inductor and the nonmagnetic ring 3c, 23, contact portions of the claw 3b of the other inductor and the nonmagnetic ring 3c, and 24, an electron beam irradiated by an electron beam welder.
  • Reference numeral 25 designates a jig for fixing the respective inductors and rotating the respective claws 3a and 3b in a rotation direction successively by the same angle (30° in case of 12 poles).
  • the claws 3a of the one inductor and the claws 3b of the other inductor are tacked by the jig in a state respectively interposing the nonmagnetic ring 3c.
  • a shaft 25 is inserted into the respective inductors.
  • the electron beam 24 is irradiated to the contact portions 22 of the claws 3a and the nonmagnetic ring 3c from the inner sides of the claws 3a and from a position inclined to the axial direction by 45°.
  • the nonmagnetic ring 3c and the claws 3a are locally melted by the irradiation of the electron beam 24 and are welded together as in the welded portion in FIG. 1.
  • the shaft 25 is rotated in the rotational direction by 30°, the electron beam 24 is irradiated to the contact portions 23 of the claw 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c from the inner side of the claw 3b as above thereby welding and connecting the claw 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c.
  • the welding of all the claws 3a and 3b and the nonmagnetic ring 3c is completed by rotating the shaft 25 successively at intervals of 30° and by irradiating the electron beam 24 a total of 12 times.
  • the width ⁇ W and the depth ⁇ D of the welded portions shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 can respectively be controlled and the bonding strength can easily be controlled by controlling 1 the focus of beam, 2 its strength or output, and 3 the moving speed of beam.
  • the welding can be performed even when the dimension A of the nonmagnetic ring 3c is enlarged by setting the angle of irradiation of the electron beam 24 to an angle of inclination of 60° as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, and the bonding strength can be controlled by controlling the angle of irradiation of the electron beam 24.
  • the angle of inclination of the beam in the electron beam welding can be selected in a range of 30° through 70°, and particularly 45° is preferable.
  • the degree of freedom of beam control (welding strength, beam irradiation position, deviated welding etc.) is considerable and the welding operation is facilitated, which is suitable for mass production.
  • the inductors having the claws 3a and 3b are rotated successively at a predetermined angle, and the position and direction of the irradiation by the electron beam are fixed.
  • the welding may be performed by fixing the inductors having the claws 3a and 3b and by successively changing the direction of the irradiation of the electron beam 24 as shown in FIG. 8.
  • Examples have been shown with respect to electron beam welding. However, the invention is also applicable to laser welding. These examples are shown in FIGS. 9 and 10. In case of laser welding, W/D is enhanced compared with electron beam welding.
  • the welding may be performed by TIG welding or MIG welding.
  • W/D is further enhanced compared with laser welding.
  • the contact portions of the claws of the inductors and the nonmagnetic ring are welded by a welding means from the inner sides of the claws of the inductors and from the positions which are inclined with respect to the axial direction by a predetermined angle.
  • the respective claws and the nonmagnetic ring can be welded from the same direction without reversing the direction of opening of the claws of the inductor in the rotor by 180°, and the invention provides an effect wherein the welding can be performed simply, efficiently and in a short time.

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